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EBOOK Defending Politics:Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191623738
EAN: 2F12CD07EB
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Stron: 224
Data wydania: 2012
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If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears        to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of        politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the        capacity of democratic politics to resolve pressing social concerns. This shift in        global attitudes has been explored in a vast body of writing that examines the        existence of 'disaffected democrats' and 'democratic deficits'.Defending Politics        meets this contemporary pessimism about the political process head on. In doing so,        it aims to cultivate a shift from the bland and fatalistic 'politics of pessimism'        that appears to dominate public life towards a more buoyant and engaged 'politics of        optimism'.Matthew Flinders makes a highly unfashionable but incredibly important        argument of almost primitive simplicity: democratic politics delivers far more than        most members of the public appear to acknowledge and understand. If more and more        people are disappointed with what modern democratic politics delivers then is it        possible that the fault lies with those who demand too much, fail to acknowledge the        essence of democratic engagement and ignore the complexities of governing in the        twentiethcentury rather than with democratic politics itself? Is it possible that        the public in many advanced liberal democracies have become 'democratically        decadent' in the sense that they take what democratic politics delivers for granted?        Would politics be interpreted as failing a little less if we all spent alittle less        time emphasising our individual rights and a little more time reflecting on our        responsibilities to society and future generations?Democratic politics remains 'a        great and civilizing human activity... something to be valued almost as a pearl        beyond price in the history of the human condition', as Bernard Crick stressed in        his classic In Defence of Politics fifty years ago. But it is also a far more        fragile system of governing than many people appear to realize. By returning to and        updating Crick's arguments, this book provides an honest account of why democratic        politics matters and why we need to reject thearguments of those who would turn        their backs on 'mere politics' in favour of more authoritarian, populist or        technocratic forms of governing. In rejecting fashionable fears about the 'end of        politics' and daring to suggest that the public, the media, pressure groups,        academics and politicians are all part of theproblem as well as part of the cure,        this book provides a fresh, provocative, and above all optimistic view of the        achievements and future potential of democratic politics.

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